Posted on 04/11/2011 7:31:09 AM PDT by yoe
To encourage healthful eating, Chicago school doesn't allow kids to bring lunches or certain snacks from home — and some parents, and many students, aren't fans of the policy
A Little Village Academy student cringes at an enchilada dish served at his school. Many students throw away their entrees uneaten and say they would rather bring food from home. The school, though, does not allow students to bring in their own lunches, unless they have a medical condition or a food allergy.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Any school that bans homemade lunches also puts more money in the pockets of the district's food provider, Chartwells-Thompson. The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.
There's the reason. I wonder of the principal has any economic ties with this company.
Correctamundo! From the article:
Any school that bans homemade lunches also puts more money in the pockets of the district's food provider, Chartwells-Thompson. The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.
Welcome to Chicago, where the government owns you.
I bet they make the kids say a pagan blessing over their earth-meal too.
The parents in this school had better start making some serious noise.
Well, if I were a student in that school, I’d smuggle my sandwiches in my backpack or pockets and eat them in the restroom. Then I’d go to the cafeteria, load my tray up with all they’d let me, then I’d throw the whole thing into the trash.
'Control' is the key word here. From the article:
"The school food is very healthy," he said, "and when they bring the food from home, there is no control over the food."
I have less than "no pity." I have something in the range between blame and condemnation.
Public education is WELFARE. Just say no. Don't mooch!
Without competition is it any wonder that the quality went down?
Socialist nitwits cannot ever fathom the value of competition - OR - as is more likely - they are part of the beneficiaries of the monopoly policy.
How much does Chartwells-Thompson pay some politician for passing this law?
Mmmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm Barack Hussein Obama.... Amen.
The guber mint is there to help.
Sort of a politicoculinary bulemia I suppose?
Why don’t they just mix the ritalin right in with the organically raised fruit cup?
One cheese enchalas will get you 50% of your daily allowance of sat. fat and 30 - 35% of your sodium. If they serve up two of them to the kiddies, you do the math. Yep it is about the Children!
What’s the problem? Parents have willingly allowed communist union slugs to control their kids brains so why the heck not allow the Marxists to control their diet?
As we have allowed the incremental cancer of socialism/communism/Marxism to infect every aspect of our daily lives what makes us think our children are ours to raise?
Might as well delete the 1st and 2nd Amendments as we no longer have enough people with a backbone and a love of what the founders risked their lives and fortunes for to fight the government on the local/state/federal level, and while we are at it, the UN level as our boy wonder in the Oval Office wants us to all bend over for international law.
I graduated in 2005 and I packed my lunch every day of HS. Not only that, I used paper bags each time. Haha. The cafeteria actually served cookies at lunch too. My friends dared me to see how many I could eat once. I demolished 17 of them. Pretty decent sized cookies too. Haha. The great thing was, was that we bought all of them at once. We had a tray loaded down with about 20 cookies and that was it. I have a feeling that those days are gone. I can’t imagine what they would say if someone went to pay for his lunch and all it was was chocolate cookies.
Everyone knows mexican food is good for you. You never see any fat people running the border do you? They are all skinny and fit. Right now the USDA is reconstructing an ethnically sensitive food pyramid chart.
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